Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing.

My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.

Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.

I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.

We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.

The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone.

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.

Your lies didn't stop me loving you; your truth hasn't stopped me either.

The world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods.

I cannot perch among those who think that I am broken.

If I could keep a single moment for all time, that would be the one. I became the very air; I was full of stars.

The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only whenGod lays His headagainst us.

Life changes us, with its twists and turns, in ways we don't always see coming. It changes what we want, what we dream, lays blessings in our hands better than anything we could've imagined.

So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero.

Whatever one may say about the perils of workshops, they help writers internalize an awareness of audience.

Philosophy became a gloomy science, in the labyrinth of which people vainly tried to find the exit, called The Truth.

He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.

I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.

A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom and morality and humanity.

Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.

He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.